Direct and Vicarious Role Models The results show a clear and significant difference between sum of scores for direct role models and vicarious role models with direct role models scoring a higher mean than vicarious ones (refer to Table 1.4).
Teenagers and young adults are more susceptible to celebrity influence than the more mature population because as we grow up our role models change to fulfil the consequent needs of sobriety and maturity. A teenage girl will grow out of following pop singers and replace them with a more ladylike replacement such as a fond teacher. As the mean age of our population was 20.8 years we can say that we had a more mature sample of participants which explains why celebrities and television personalities were …show more content…
It identified that parents are the most influential direct role models in an individual’s life. Two related functions of role models that emerge from the literature are those of role modelling and of mentoring (Ingall 1997; Irvine 1989).
By this finding, it would mean that parental values and the way they are expressed are most important in shaping perceptions, values and behavior. Seminars and workshops can be designed to help parents guide their children as they move towards adulthood. These seminars can be made part of the university’s policy. If we take into account the omitted results, then prophets scored the highest on being a most important role model. This can be explained by the social desirability effect. As Pakistan is a collectivist society with values and norms deeply rooted into its dominant religion, Islam, these results are not astonishing. However, what is interesting to note is that religious personalities were not rated as high as the prophets although they carry the same basic characteristic. We can say that prophets are taken as role models by people on the basis of the historical, cultural, social and religious importance attached to them and not because they actually influence the behaviour of the …show more content…
Further research needs to be done to probe further and know why people select the role models they select. This survey simply identified the people taken as role models. Further research can find out about the characteristics that are important for university students in their role models. For example, honesty, power, etcetera. Moreover, these characteristics can then be developed in role models that can prove to be positive like philanthropists and siblings.
Only 21.26 % of respondents reported that they take historical leaders to be the most important role models whereas national leaders like Quaid e Azam, Allama Iqbal and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan possessed powerful qualities that if espoused, can contribute towards development of positive personalities.
Therefore, we need to design the history syllabus taught to make sure that whatever is taught about our historical leaders is made relevant to the students so that they can take them as role
Teenagers and young adults are more susceptible to celebrity influence than the more mature population because as we grow up our role models change to fulfil the consequent needs of sobriety and maturity. A teenage girl will grow out of following pop singers and replace them with a more ladylike replacement such as a fond teacher. As the mean age of our population was 20.8 years we can say that we had a more mature sample of participants which explains why celebrities and television personalities were …show more content…
It identified that parents are the most influential direct role models in an individual’s life. Two related functions of role models that emerge from the literature are those of role modelling and of mentoring (Ingall 1997; Irvine 1989).
By this finding, it would mean that parental values and the way they are expressed are most important in shaping perceptions, values and behavior. Seminars and workshops can be designed to help parents guide their children as they move towards adulthood. These seminars can be made part of the university’s policy. If we take into account the omitted results, then prophets scored the highest on being a most important role model. This can be explained by the social desirability effect. As Pakistan is a collectivist society with values and norms deeply rooted into its dominant religion, Islam, these results are not astonishing. However, what is interesting to note is that religious personalities were not rated as high as the prophets although they carry the same basic characteristic. We can say that prophets are taken as role models by people on the basis of the historical, cultural, social and religious importance attached to them and not because they actually influence the behaviour of the …show more content…
Further research needs to be done to probe further and know why people select the role models they select. This survey simply identified the people taken as role models. Further research can find out about the characteristics that are important for university students in their role models. For example, honesty, power, etcetera. Moreover, these characteristics can then be developed in role models that can prove to be positive like philanthropists and siblings.
Only 21.26 % of respondents reported that they take historical leaders to be the most important role models whereas national leaders like Quaid e Azam, Allama Iqbal and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan possessed powerful qualities that if espoused, can contribute towards development of positive personalities.
Therefore, we need to design the history syllabus taught to make sure that whatever is taught about our historical leaders is made relevant to the students so that they can take them as role